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J. B. TERRY;

MACHINE FOR STIGKI'NG PINS.

No. 15,091. PATENTED JUNE 10, 1856.

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J. B. TERRY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

MACHINE FOR STICKING PINS;

Specification of Letters Patent N 0. 15,091, dated. June 10, 1856.

To rZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. B. TERRY, of I-Iart ford, county of Hartford, and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Method of Sticking Pins; and I do hereby declare that the same as described and represented in the following specification and drawings is sufficiently clear to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same.

I will proceed to describe the construction and use referring to the drawings in which the same letters indicate like parts in each of the figures, also reference being had to drawings in my patent, May twenty ninth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.

The nature of my improvement consists in arranging the machinery as to produce the sticking of pins in the paper by the back and forward movement of the conductor.

I change the bed of the machine from a level to any desirable inclination, and arrange the conductor (A) therein between ways, on which it is caused to move and in such a manner as to allow the offset portion of said conductor to come in a line with the jaws (E E E, patent 1855) which hold the crimped port-ion of the paper. I construct or arrange upon either side and at the lower end of the conductor, posts (Figure 1) to which I secure a plate Fig. 2) for the purpose of preventing the escape of the pins, as they pass down the conductor and rest against the plate, said plate so hung that when it is turned upward it will rest upon the off-set portion of the conductor and be in a line therewith.

I atfix a lever to the plate pinion, or to the plate itself on which is a weight (Fig. 3) which may be moved out or in from the fulcrum as may be desired to give the re quired pressure of the plate against the end of the conductor. I suspend a notched cross bar (Fig. 4) by two arms secured to the posts (Fig. 1) just back of the point where the plate is secured and nearly in a line with the conductors surface and having a lift ing rod (Fig. 5) attached to the under side of said cross bar, and a spring to bring the cross bar to its resting position; said lifting rod is operated upon by any of the ordinary ways, as the lever and cam, from the main shaft (K). I also cut a notch from the lower end of the conductors surface to allow the pins head to drop and allow the vibrating plate to turn over the head and not disturb the position of the pin.

I use my cut off (to Thomas WV. Harvey of New York assigned to John B. Terry of Hartford Conn. dated January 3d, 1854;) arranged upon the off set surface of the conductor to take place of the wheel arrangement (C, patent 1855) for the pur pose of uniformity and regularity in taking off but one row of pins at a time.

It will be seen that by this arrangement, the machine being set in motion that while the paper is being crimped and transferred from the crimper to the jaws (E E E, pat. 1855) the cut off has dropped one row of pins down against the plate (Fig. 2) the notched cross bar by means of the lifting rod (Fig. 5) commences its upward movement striking the row of pins just back of the points, and slightly slipping lengthwise toward the head tending to keep the pins firm in the notches and against the conductor, and carrying them with the plate upward until said plate rests upon the surface of the conductor, and in a line therewith, the conductor commences its forward movement by means of the same lever and cam which gives motion to the fingers (D, pat. 1855) and continues until the pin is thrust forward into the crimped portion of the paper held by the jaws (E E E, pat. 1855) after the conductor commences its movement, and the pins enter the crimp, the cross bar is released and brought back quickly, by the spring to its resting point and ready for a new operation. By this improvement I simplify the machinery and facilitate its action.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. I claim the movable conductor or conductors with notches for the head to hold the pins, and push them into the crimp por tion of the paper.

2. I claim the movable notched cross bar, to correspond with the notches in the conductors, and the movable plate, or its With the clamp 01' jaws Which hold the paper While the pins are thrust through.

J. B. TERRY.

Witnesses HENRY FRANCIS, O. D. SEYMOUR. 

